The Only Retreats
Three Himalayan heritage brands, one premium store. Not mass produced. Only preserved.
- Client
- Rugvedic Ventures, Pune
- Industry
- Himalayan foods & heritage craft
- Year
- 2026
- Services
- E-commerceWebsiteSEO
- Live site
- theonlyretreats.com ↗
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The challenge
Rugvedic Ventures, founded by Rugved in Pune, works directly with Himalayan valleys and craftspeople. They had three very different ranges: high-altitude foods like honey, ghee and shilajit, handcrafted copper, brass and kansa cookware, and ritual goods like havan kits, soaps and sambrani. They needed one premium online store that tells the story behind every product, takes real payments, sells to customers abroad and meets food-labelling rules, without turning into three separate websites to look after.
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Our approach
We designed and built the platform from scratch as one codebase that runs three brands, each with its own home: The Only Retreats for Himalayan foods (/products), Roots and Ore for metal cookware (/dhatu) and Divya for ritual goods (/divya). The look is calm and editorial: big landscape photography, a Sanskrit line on every product and the altitude and valley it comes from, so each jar feels like a place, not a SKU. Behind it is a complete store: cart, Razorpay checkout, customer accounts and an admin panel the team runs themselves.
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What we built
Built with
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Full checkout, end to end
Cart → Razorpay payment → a saved order with every item and the delivery address, ready for dispatch.
- 02
Customer accounts
Sign-in with Clerk, order history, a wishlist and saved addresses for faster repeat orders.
- 03
Sells beyond India
Multi-currency pricing, so international customers see prices in their own currency.
- 04
Food-label compliance
FSSAI compliance panels on the ghee and honey pages, plus all the legal pages a store needs.
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Run by the team
An admin panel for products, orders and articles, so nothing needs a developer day to day.
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“From Our Journal”
A blog managed from the admin panel, telling the stories of the valleys and the people behind each product.
- 07
Built to be found
Sitemap, robots.txt and structured data in place, with Google Search Console verified and the sitemap submitted.
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Media that stays fast
Product photography served through Cloudinary, hosted on Vercel.
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The results
The Only Retreats is live at theonlyretreats.com, taking real orders across all three brands from one store that the team manages themselves.
Three brands, one store
Foods, cookware and ritual goods share one cart, one checkout and one admin.
Real orders, live
Payments run through Razorpay and every order is saved with its items and address.
Ready to grow
SEO groundwork, a journal and a CMS (Sanity) set up for the next phase.